Improvement in bale-ties



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Bale-Ties.

NO. 139,675. PatentedJunlO,1873;

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i NI'IED STATES PATENT QFFIGE,

EDWARD P JONES, oF SHELL MouND, Mississippi.. f

IMPROVEMENT .IN BALEFTIES.V

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,675, dated J une10,1873; application led May 24, 1573. l

vTo all 'whom it'may concern!V 'Be it known that I, EDWARD P. JONES, of

Shell Mound, in the county of Sunflower and State of Mississippi, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Uotton-Bale Ties, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing and the letters ofreference markedthereon making part of this specication, in which, is represented planand vertical sectional viewsof different forms ofthe tie.'

The object of my invention is to stamp or otherwise manufacture abale-tie out of a piece of metal of uniform thickness, so formed andconstructed as to permit of the entireslack of the baud being taken upafter the bale has been compressed, and the hook at the end of its freesection then introduced and secured `without a slit being cut throughthe wall of vthe tie for its introduction, or cutting away any portionor portions of said Wall so as to provide dan ges to retain the hook andprevent itsl lateral slipping when the band is called upon to resist theexpansive force of the bale,

thus securing in a bale-tie having a continuous uncut ywall all theadvantages of the open-slot tie, and,'as hregards facility of fastening,yet greater advantages. For in my improvement,

lwithout turning the tie-plate or in any manner changing its positionfrom that which it oci cupies after the fasteninglis effected, the hookat the free end ofthe band can be introduced in and over its bearing,and on a line exactly parallel therewith, and which, when the bale isfreed from.` the compress, leaves the hook in-such position as to bedrawn by a straight pull directly over its bearings, it being guided andheld thereon by the walls of the tie, and without any sections of saidWall being cut 4away so as to leave flanges or projections for thatpurpose. I thus avoid all manipulation of 'the hook inthe slot after itsintroduction, "in order `to bring it over its proper bearing surface,and render unnecessary any peculiar configuration of the slot `to assistin automatically accomplishing the same result. The

'naturel of my invention consists'in forming thetie with slots separatedby a tongue, the main section of which is level and extends in the sameplane, or nearly so, with that of the slightly curved or turned down `soas to leave an opening between the end of the tongue and the wall ot'the tie opposite thereto j ust sui-l cient to allow of the introductionof the loop or h ook edgewise," and which, after being iiitroduced andpassed'over the. tongue, is so held by the walls of the tie'as toprevent its lateralslipping, and which renders "it impos- H sible forthe hook to become detached without-manipulation. If desired, the frontwall Yof the tie, or the wall which acts as a clampy ing-bar for thehook, and which assists in holding the band with like security, whethery the outer section of the hook in fastening is turned down. underko'rup over the body of the band, may beslightly. bulging from the i face ofthe plate, and which facilitates Athe hooking of the band over thetongue when the latter extends on exactly the ysaine plane with itsbearing-wall, or the wall of the tie` with whichit is connected.

The construction and operation of my invention are as follows:

The bale-tie A is constructed outol any Y suitable metal, and by any ofthe usual processes, is rectangular inform, and is provided,

with slots 4or openings B B', and a tongue, C. One end of the band dispassed through the slot B, and secured around its wall A', intheordinary manner, and which is generally done at the factory, and isthe condition in which the bands and` ties are now generally" offered tothe trade.` These slots oropenings i B B', may be of any desired formand dimen-4 sions. 'lhe upper one, B, and around the outer Wall A1ofiwhich the permanent fastening of i the band, as it is termed, iselfected,is usually oblong, care being taken that the inner face a i ofthe'wall of said slot or opening is exactly parallel with the edge C1 ofthe tongue, and which is the bearing-,surfaceof the hook or loop d' onthe free end of the band D. The

form of the other opening or slot, B',depends von theform` or outline ofthe tongue, or, more particularly, the shape of its inner edge 02,'

and which forms, as it were', the inner wallof Asaid slot or opening B'.The tongue C may l be of any desired form and shape, care being takenthat so much of the surface of itsedge C1 as is to furnish a bearing forthe hook o'r loop d of the band is parallel with the inner edge a. ofthe wall Al of the slot B. This tongue is connected with the wall .Az ofthe tie, and extends out on a line horizontal with'the planeV of itssurface, or nearly so. The outer or free' shoulder or projection, b,which may be eitherright angular, as shown in Fig. k2, curved, as shownin Fig. 4, or simply angular or inclined, as shown in Fig. 5, and inconnection with the protruding or angular section a on the wallfurnishes a most reliable bearing for the head of the hook or loop d',and which, under certain circumstances, as will hereafter be explained,renders the so forming of the tie as to provide said shoulder b andprojection a a great advantage, the front wall A4 of the tie, and underwhich the sections of the band D which form the hook d are passed, andwhich acts as a clamping-bar for the same, permitting the free end oftheband being fastened with equal security, whether its end is hooked orlooped; or its short outer section turned down in contact with the baleor up over the body of the band, as shown in Fig. 2, may be bulged orset Voi' from the plane of the plate, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, andwhich recesses, formed f by the bulging section of the tie, greatlyfacilitate the passing of the hook or loop d over the tongue C,especially when said tongue projects on a true line with the surface ofthe plane of-the plate A.

The great advantages of this tie are found in the fact that it isentirely practical to make, as no portion of the wall or solid sectionsof the tie are to be cut away to provide anged bearings on the undersurface to retain the hook, and no portion of its solid section or thetongue are required to be cut away to an angular or tapering edge tofacilitate the introduction of the hook d', and either of whichformations renders it almost impossible to stamp the tie, and, if cast,renders it valueless in consequence of the fact that, it not being ofuniform thickness and the metal not being evenly distributed, itsdifferent sections would not cool alike, and a porous casting, or onehaving shrink-holes, would be the result; and, as is well understood,such a casting could never resist the sudden and powerful pressure ofthe expansive force of the bale when released from the compress.Therefore, with my improvement a tie is produced having a continuous anduncut wall, and which is. as easy to stamp or manufacture as is thearrow tie or any other well-known tie, and possesses all the advantagesof any open-slot tie or a tie having its wall cleft, with an openingleading into the slot on the walls of whichthe ends of the band havetheir bearings, for in no tie of the class referred to can a securefastening of Y the band with the short or outer section of its hook orloop turned over on top of the surface of the same be eiected, as inmine, and as is clearly shown in Fig. 2.

From the foregoing description, the construction and operation of myimproved tie will readily be understood. The band D, with its hooksecured around the wall Al of the tie, we will suppose to be in thepress-box and around a portion of the bale in the usual manner duringthe process of pressing or compressing. When this operation is finished,the bulk of the bale having been greatly reduced, there is, of course,considerable slack in the band. This slack is all taken up, and the bandis bent at any desired point, and which forms the hook d. This hook isnow passed under the wall A3, and up through the opening c', into theslot B, and over the tongue C, and on a line parallel with itsbearing-edge C1, and onto which the pressure of the bale will secure andfasten it, and all danger of its slipping off from the tongue laterally`is securely guarded against when the tongue extends on the same planewith its bearing-wall A2, by the wall A3 and the under shoulder c of thetongue. When the tie is so constructed that its tongue C extends at aslight angle of inclination from instead of on the same plane with thesurface of its bearing-wall A2, the distance between the end of saidtongue and the wall Alis increased, and the opening c is widened;therefore the head of the hook on the edge C1 of the tongue would not,in case of its lateral slipping, butt so directly against the Wall A3 aswhen the tongue is flat, and its release Without manipulation might beaccomplished; but with the projection a and shoulder b .such a resultwouldbe impossible, as when the band is once fastened its becomingunhooked without manipulation would heini,- possible. But I desire itdistinctly understood that under all circumstances I propose to soconstruct the tie as to not only leave its side walls A2 Asparallel, butalways in the same plane, and to relatively so arrange the tongue inconnectiony therewith that the band when once fastened over the tongueshall be pre vented from laterally slipping oii by the straight edgeofthe wall A3 of the tie; consequently the shoulder b is provided simplyas an additional security.

A tie so constructed as to leave an opening betweenthe edge C of thetongue and the under face of the wall A3 of the tie, and on a line withthe bearing C1 of the tongue, and which is provided by deflecting thetongue or bulging the wall A3 of the tie. or both, I do not claim, as itwould defeat` the object of my invention, and which consists in soconstructing thetie that the side wall A3 shall provide a direct andpositive bearing to prevent the bands slipping laterally off the tongue.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is-

1. The bale-tie`A, having a continuous and uncut wall, slotsor openingsB B', and the tongue C, having its outer section turned down so astoleave a shoulder or iiange'` bearing, c, and an opening, c', eitherVWith or without the Wall A4 being bulged, the whole being soconstructed and relatively arranged that the tongue shall extend on sucha plane with the side walls A2 A3 of the tie that the lateral slippingof the band 01T the tongue shall be prevented by said Walls, and Withoutany sections of the same being cut away so as to provide bearing-flangesfor that purpose, substantially as described.

2. The bale-tie A, having slots or openings B B', and the tongue C,having shoulders or projections c b, either with or without the wall A4being bulged, the Whole being so constructed, combined, and arrangedasto permit of the fastening and retention of the band,

